Trumps corruption deserves to be a central issue in the 2018 midterms

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/1/17056562/trump-corruption-midterms

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Democrats are still licking their wounds from the presidential election, afraid to return to a strategy that many believe cost Hillary Clinton the White House: excessively focusing on Donald Trump’s personal flaws rather than policy. It might have been the wrong choice then, but a swing back closer to it is the right approach now, especially on Trump and corruption.

Trump’s exploitation of loopholes in American conflict of interest law, after all, is a policy issue. And with the economy doing fine and America’s low-key drone wars not directly impacting most voters, it’s clear that for better or worse the central political issue in American politics is Trump himself.

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Donald Trump is profiting off the presidency

The potential for serious corruption was always implicit in Trump’s presidential bid. We have had wealthy presidents before. But the Bushes, Kennedys, and Roosevelts were heirs to large, diversified fortunes consisting of stocks and bonds that could be placed into blind trusts in relatively straightforward ways.

Barack Obama just owned index funds. Jimmy Carter sold his peanut farm to avoid placing himself in the situation where the president was also the owner/manager of an ongoing business enterprise. Trump never committed to liquidating the Trump business empire, which meant the country would find itself in an unprecedented situation fraught with peril.

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